Emergency Response Planning Committee
The mission of the committee is:
To develop guidelines for responding to potential releases of airborne substances for use in community emergency planning.
Goals and Objectives
Goal: Publish brief summaries and estimates of tolerable-effect thresholds, not intended as exposure recommendations, to assist in the planning for accidental, episodic chemical releases.
Objective: Review the health and safety data on the chemicals of greatest concern in the United States.
Strategies:
- Assign evaluators to review and revise toxicology summaries on chemicals of concern.
- Meet as a full committee four times a year to review summary documents and to develop estimates of tolerable exposure levels.
- Prepare emergency response guidelines for publication and distribution by the AIHA national office.
- Prepare and maintain documentation supporting the guidelines
Publications
- 2008 Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPG) Update Set
- 2007 Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPG) Update Set
- 2006 Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPG) and Workplace Environmental Exposure Levels (WEEL) Handbook
- 2002 Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPG) Complete Set Written by the AIHA Emergency Response Planning (ERPG) Committee
- 2003 Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPG) Update Set
- 2004 Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPG) Update Set
- 2005 Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPG) Update Set
- 2006 Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPG) Update Set
All publications are available in the AIHA Marketplace online or by calling (703) 849-8888.